It has a volume of It would require a train 16, miles long or 2 million freight cars to carry all of the fill in the dam. Other generators were added.
In , the Corps announced the fifth generator was put on line and the dam was considered finished completing a year project. The fifth generator increased the power potential to , kilowatts and made the dam the largest power producer at that time operating in the Missouri River valley. Close to , acres of land were acquired to provide space for the huge reservoir, and thousands of people had to give up their homes and land bases to make it possible, The Minot Daily News reported in Hudson said about , acres of the land taken for the reservoir was Fort Berthold Reservation land according to official documents.
She said the majority of that reservation land was owned by individual tribal members and the rest was owned by the Three Affiliated Tribes. The Fort Berthold acreage for the Garrison Dam project amounted to about 25 percent of the reservation land, she said.
Kevin Oscar Grady, 52, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in U. District Court in North Dakota on three Are you a paying subscriber to the newspaper? Subscribe Today. The GDU Commission, in its final report issued December 20, , recommended development of a GDU significantly different from the project described in the feasibility report and the project authorized in As a provision of the fiscal year appropriations, Congress stipulated that new construction contracts not be awarded or additional land be acquired unless the project was reauthorized by March 31, In conjunction with the new act, a statement of principles was signed by all the primary stakeholders in the previous project conflicts.
The continued evaluation of a smaller Lonetree Reservoir as a project feature and further analysis of the recommended Sykeston Canal deferred progress with construction of the principal water delivery facilities.
President Bush Sr. Funding for these features would be considered by the administration within the context of national priorities. The legislation further amended the Garrison Diversion Reformulation Act of About News Meetings Contact. Home » About ». Garrison Diversion Unit Because of changes to the original plan and the language in the appropriations act requiring specific reauthorization for all units of the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, the Bureau of Reclamation returned to Congress for reauthorization.
The major recommendations were: Irrigation of , acres of land, none of which drains to the Hudson Bay. Nor were they allowed irrigation development or royalty rights on all subsurface minerals within the reservoir area. The losses also included spiritual ties to the land and the intangible benefits that came from living along the Missouri River.
None of the tribes were consulted about the project during the planning stages. The Bureau of Indian Affairs, which supervises Indian land held in trust by the Department of the Interior, raised no objections. This was especially galling for the Three Affiliated Tribes. They had been at peace with the U.
Now they felt betrayed. Lisa Jones wrote about their reaction:. The Indians fought back. But as the news from the government the tribes had trusted for nearly years went from bad to worse, the people of Fort Berthold were stunned, then angry. We will lose our homes, our communities, our economy, our resources.
Sure enough, the Three Affiliated Tribes gave up , acres, the most fertile part of their lands, and their clinic. The Army Corps of Engineers handled negotiations. Tribal sovereignty and treaty rights, including the Yankton Treaty of , were completely ignored. So too was the Winters Doctrine, a Supreme Court ruling that Indians have inherent rights to water resources on their lands.
The amount of money offered to owners of individual Indian land allotments was significantly less than the amount offered to non-Indian land owners. Likewise, as the dam projects began in a time when federal termination of tribes and reservations was in full swing, government compensation for damages caused by the taking of communally owned tribal land was well below its market value.
Today, the earthen Garrison Dam holds back the water of Lake Sakakawea, the second-largest manmade lake by area in the nation. The turbines on the dam are capable of generating some megawatts of electricity, though they average just half that.
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